Geographic Information Systems- A framework including easy to use functions for handling and analysing spatial and spatio-temporal data. The package is followed by a graphical user interface (GUI) to make it user-friendly and facilitates interaction with data and visualisation.

Visualization methods for raster- The raster package defines classes and methods for spatial raster data access and manipulation. The rasterVis package complements raster providing a set of methods for enhanced visualization and interaction.

raster -- spatial data- The 'raster' package deals with basic spatial raster (grid) data access and manipulation. It defines raster classes; can deal with very large files (stored on disk); and includes standard raster functions such as overlay, aggregation, and merge.